Survive the Savage Sea As is usual at this time of the year much newspaper space has been devoted to the dangers of exposure to the elements. You do not have to...

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PASS THE ICELANDIC SPAR, PLEASE One thing we take for granted in the Lookout is the chart. Because we only cover the area the eye can see our charts are large scale,...

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If You Get It Wrong It Can Be Fatal I am an Offshore member of the RNLI, a relic of my sailing days when I thought I might need their services. They...

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‘Sailing By’ Or ‘A Red Sky At Night’ ‘Bailey, Hebrides Fair Isle… North West 6 becoming 7 or 8 later. Rough or very rough. Rain showers. Moderate, occasionally poor in showers’. I...

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What On Earth Is That On The Horizon It lies out there, a giant floating box, seemingly stationary, a Lego piece thrown by a petulant child. There are a few ships about...

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Sod’s Law – If It Can Go Wrong – It Will I was a child in London during the War, one of the majority of London children who were not evacuated. Aged...

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Time Changes Everything The new season has started and the Lookout is open – though still not on Tuesdays because we do not have enough volunteers to man everyday of the week....

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If The Bomb Drops! At one point in my police career I was in charge of three nuclear bunkers. This was the Cold War era and they were built all over the...

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Things That Go Bump In The Night About two months ago the papers were full of pictures of a French trawler lying on its side in Dartmouth Harbour. It had take shelter...

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Can You Hear Me Mother? I have been involved with radios for a very long time. When I first joined the Police in 1954 personal radio was unknown and it was only...

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